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- ...when I compare those to the oldest structures in California – the adobe buildings of the Spanish missions, which were built between 1769 and 1823. Even so, m At its peak, the mission complex included some 32 buildings, but only one survives today. For a variety of reasons, Mission Santa Cruz8 KB (1,321 words) - 16:21, 5 May 2024
- ...e first target. A raiding party landed and sacked the Presidio – burning buildings and destroying the fort’s artillery.14 KB (2,343 words) - 01:11, 18 August 2023
- ...e County). During the few boom years of the Gold Rush, roughly-constructed buildings sprang up all over today’s downtown area. Several businesses related to m ...ecome Salz Leathers, which survived until 2001. Several of the old tannery buildings have been restored and incorporated into the [[Tannery Arts Center]]. In a6 KB (980 words) - 17:55, 20 October 2023
- ...reet). In 1847-48, Moore built a log house that became one of the earliest buildings in today’s downtown Santa Cruz. Moore later built a wood-frame house fart7 KB (1,078 words) - 17:57, 20 October 2023
- ...me warehouse at the top of the wharf. There are two long narrow commercial buildings at today's corner of Pacific and Mission, and another around the corner on4 KB (731 words) - 17:57, 20 October 2023
- From construction dates of buildings, we can see that Santa Cruz development in the 1850s was split between the6 KB (1,036 words) - 17:58, 20 October 2023
- ...pping lime to make mortar since 1853, it took awhile for brick (non-adobe) buildings to catch on here. The Flatiron was one of the first in town – certainly t4 KB (606 words) - 17:59, 20 October 2023
- ...Santa Cruz (UCSC). Ruins of the kilns remain and several of the limeworks buildings have been restored, located near the main campus entrance. The main lime qu4 KB (612 words) - 18:00, 20 October 2023
- ...h were saved (the last one only partially). The three south-most surviving buildings were then incorporated into the new (in 1894) Hotaling building that became4 KB (705 words) - 18:01, 20 October 2023
- ...ial organizations. Those institutions, in turn, need public and government buildings, meeting halls, parks – places for the townies to do town things.5 KB (853 words) - 18:02, 20 October 2023
- ...es of the street, which began to be filled with commercial and residential buildings. By 1861, most of the willow trees had been cut down, their original functi6 KB (1,070 words) - 19:01, 5 May 2024
- ...e then, the state park and many volunteers have restored many of the ranch buildings to their late-19th-century glory days. ...ormer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Refugio Rancho Refugio]. Ranch buildings include an 1830s adobe built by the original grantee, [[Bolcoff, Josef|Jose3 KB (557 words) - 18:03, 20 October 2023
- ...in the ten years from 1867 to 1877. Beginning at the plaza, the new-style buildings marched steadily south along Pacific Avenue and Front Street, and up Missio ...earliest new buildings. The photo at left is from about 1890, but the two buildings shown had already been there for a while. The St. Charles Hotel (at left in6 KB (1,040 words) - 18:06, 20 October 2023
- ...tory, but the most visible remnants of a historical period are usually its buildings and other human constructions. They don’t move around like people, and ar ...ructure was built, and that’s especially true for some of the handful of buildings constructed in a very distinctive and easily recognizable style called Seco7 KB (1,162 words) - 18:07, 20 October 2023
- ...y years old was considered “aging” for those hastily-constructed 1850s buildings) the Chinese community moved into along Front Street were fires waiting to ...longer a reason to have a Chinatown in Santa Cruz. The last, mostly empty buildings of the last Santa Cruz Chinatown were demolished after the 1955 flood and n9 KB (1,469 words) - 18:40, 6 April 2024
- ...tractor in the 1860s and 70s. He built the 1866 County Courthouse, several buildings along Pacific Avenue and probably both the Davis & Cowell and railroad whar7 KB (1,166 words) - 18:09, 20 October 2023
- ...ies, the book is extensively illustrated with original drawings of people, buildings and landscapes, and also a few maps. We all like books with lots of picture ...ifornia: Illustrations descriptive of its scenery, fine residences, public buildings, manufactories, hotels, farm scenes, business houses, schools, churches, mi6 KB (902 words) - 18:09, 20 October 2023
- ...oved to Elm Street, where it remains today. The moving of houses and other buildings was pretty common in those days, unlike today.7 KB (1,112 words) - 18:10, 20 October 2023
- ...[[History Pages: 3 - The Missionaries|Mission Santa Cruz]], with its adobe buildings arranged around the plaza on the hill, and with its farm lands on the river8 KB (1,404 words) - 18:10, 20 October 2023
- ...and 1883 (right), an expanded SCR railroad yard included several other SCR buildings and a turntable. By the time the next Sanborn map was published in 1886, th ...of the house next door (shown on the 1883 map at right) are the two oldest buildings in the block. Division Street on the Sanborn map above is today’s Squid A5 KB (860 words) - 18:13, 20 October 2023
- In the days when even the largest buildings were built of wood, before fire sprinklers and copious water supplies, fire5 KB (767 words) - 18:14, 20 October 2023
- ...irst iteration of our town clock). Stubbornly defying imagination, the two buildings became known as “Ely’s Block No. 1” and “Ely’s Block No. 2”. ...ive the courthouse more space. Following the 1894 fire that destroyed both buildings, that’s exactly what they did to build the second courthouse – later kn5 KB (856 words) - 18:16, 20 October 2023
- ...d building techniques and more skillful local builders allowed ever-larger buildings. In 1884, successful livery stable owner [[Swanton, Albion P.|A. P. Swanton The intense heat and embers from the fire endangered other nearby buildings but, with the help of the volunteer fire brigades, most of them were saved.4 KB (612 words) - 18:18, 20 October 2023
- ...to a a "hall". Such halls were common uses for upper floors of commercial buildings in those days. New buildings between Walnut and Lincoln replaced the aging structures of the first China6 KB (916 words) - 18:18, 20 October 2023
- ...[Carmelita Cottages]] (right) on Main Street. This collection of six small buildings is now a youth hostel. The front two cottages date from around 1872. Be sur6 KB (1,016 words) - 18:19, 20 October 2023
- ...esh water through the mission complex. Several branches supplied different buildings. Runoff went over the bluffs down to the San Lorenzo River bottomlands. (se12 KB (1,952 words) - 18:19, 20 October 2023
- ...eable in skewed street directions and apparent distance. Some more distant buildings are drawn larger than life (e.g. Holy Cross church). ...treet goes up the hill, the lowest (partly hidden by trees) of the smaller buildings on the right may be the old mission grist mill, constructed in 1796. Chase24 KB (3,943 words) - 18:13, 22 February 2024
- ...ome cases, they may be the only surviving pictorial views of long-vanished buildings and other structures – even of entire streets and neighborhoods. ...ations (1879) contains a wealth of detailed sketches of houses, commercial buildings and other features. The 1879 timing of the publication is very helpful in c8 KB (1,155 words) - 14:37, 20 August 2023
- ...lithograph. The key proudly notes that the oldest of the surviving tannery buildings dates from the Jacob Kron tannery existing on that site in 1877.8 KB (1,404 words) - 17:42, 26 March 2023
- ...ooded downtown Santa Cruz. In later years, several fires destroyed Harry's buildings and crops.7 KB (1,237 words) - 18:54, 6 November 2023
- ...ent of the downtown business district in the second half of the 1800s, the buildings and porches ran together, forming more-or-less continuous wood plank walkwa10 KB (1,631 words) - 18:40, 20 October 2023
- ...hich in 1866 became Front Street and Pacific Avenue). After erecting other buildings adjacent to the first, Hühn returned to Germany.688 bytes (94 words) - 16:00, 13 August 2023
- ...lithograph. The key proudly notes that the oldest of the surviving tannery buildings also dates from 1877, when it was owned by [[Kron, Jacob|Jacob Kron]].6 KB (1,080 words) - 07:09, 16 October 2021
- ...additional properties along Front Street, beginning with the one with the buildings labeled "Office" and "Tin & Plumbing". That "Office" structure was about wh2 KB (307 words) - 20:06, 24 June 2023
- ...ar, in a new location on higher ground, construction began on a complex of buildings that formed the early nucleus of Santa Cruz. In 1931, Phelan family heir [[1 KB (158 words) - 20:05, 19 March 2024
- ...rated the hotel with the help of their two daughters . . . the last of its buildings was torn down in 1919."858 bytes (131 words) - 16:37, 8 September 2023
- ....|William Weeks]], and constructed in 1930. The previous two Laurel School buildings were on a site now occupied by [[Laurel Park]], adjacent to the existing bu516 bytes (69 words) - 16:37, 9 March 2024
- ...inforced-concrete construction methods explain the longevity of his public buildings, which can be found throughout the state.641 bytes (90 words) - 18:27, 6 September 2023
- ...leck]]. In 1847-48 Moore built a log house that became one of the earliest buildings in today’s downtown Santa Cruz, on land bounded by today's Pacific Avenue2 KB (229 words) - 18:50, 16 October 2023
- ...the 1850s through the 1870s. He built the 1866 County Courthouse, several buildings along Pacific Avenue and probably both the Davis & Cowell and railroad whar1 KB (192 words) - 18:13, 18 September 2023
- ...t and its grounds extended back along Emmet Street to School Street. These buildings were left vacant after the opening of the High Street structure, but were t The current school buildings were erected in evolved from a school for girls established by Sisters of2 KB (360 words) - 20:07, 19 March 2024
- ...n Street) ca. 1865. A larger 3-story building came in 1876. Today's school buildings date from 1950.721 bytes (105 words) - 19:05, 25 February 2024
- ...ade was beyond repair and in danger of collapse. All of the original three buildings except the facades were demolished and replaced with today's structure, to3 KB (389 words) - 21:05, 27 November 2023
- ...r. Ely built two Pacific Avenue commercial buildings in the 1870s. The two buildings became known as “Ely’s Block No. 1” and “Ely’s Block No. 2”. El1 KB (161 words) - 17:55, 15 October 2023
- ...emains of the courthouse and Ely's Block, and that most of the intervening buildings burned. The two surviving brick structures on the left were later absorbed Also lost to the fire were a number of buildings across Front Street, some of which together comprised what's now referred t4 KB (652 words) - 18:45, 20 October 2023
- * "[https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/134488#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0 Buildings Demolished in Downtown Santa Cruz as a Result of the Loma Prieta Earthquake ...esses were displaced when the earthquake damaged Pacific Avenue commercial buildings like those shown in the upper photo at right. A number of those found tempo1 KB (174 words) - 18:41, 22 March 2024
- ...flood and the following redevelopment, but all of the post-fire commercial buildings survived until they all were damaged-then-demolished after the [[1989 Loma ...e of the [[Staffler, George|Staffler]] building can be seen. Both of those buildings were later absorbed by the expanding bank building. To the left of the Staf3 KB (535 words) - 21:09, 26 November 2023
- ...ire that burned the [[Swanton House]] hotel and several other Front Street buildings.518 bytes (69 words) - 03:38, 20 July 2023
- ...37/hettie-jeneva-peters ''nee'' Irish 1885-1982) owned a pair of apartment buildings, built in 1937 on Pine Place. She was the only child of [[Irish, Harlie E.|591 bytes (78 words) - 23:37, 26 June 2023
- ...929 she had a new "hotel and two stores" built in the same location. These buildings may have survived until the [[San Lorenzo Park Project]] cleared the area f630 bytes (85 words) - 18:07, 10 July 2023
- ...us, within two years, he was a registered architect, designing significant buildings, including “Piedmont Court.” The grand apartment house, located in Sant2 KB (289 words) - 04:42, 16 July 2023
- ...]. In 1887 it was destroyed by fire, along with several other Front Street buildings. On the site now is the [[Santa Cruz Post Office]].944 bytes (143 words) - 17:32, 31 December 2023
- ...e after 1876 (''SWC4'' p.162). The 1892 Sanborn map names the two adjacent buildings "Harris House". Sophia's brother [[Sloan, Andrew Jackson]] was the "ghost1,001 bytes (137 words) - 20:09, 21 January 2024
- ...rmacy and Trader Joe's market. Kump also designed one of the original UCSC buildings.518 bytes (70 words) - 16:25, 7 August 2023
- ...p.jpg|thumb|center|600px|9. 1905: Sanborn map of the interconnected county buildings after the 1894 courthouse was built]]2 KB (276 words) - 20:18, 23 January 2024
- ...hoods existed in Santa Cruz between the 1850s and 1955. The last Chinatown buildings were demolished after the [[1955 San Lorenzo River flood]].364 bytes (46 words) - 17:16, 9 March 2024
- ...e]]. It and the post office are the only two surviving (pre-December 1955) buildings within the [[San Lorenzo Park Project]] redevelopment area.438 bytes (64 words) - 20:04, 10 March 2024
- ...completed on the east bank of the San Lorenzo River in 1968, comprised two buildings - a 5-story-plus-basement office building and a one-story-plus-basement cou490 bytes (68 words) - 23:38, 11 March 2024
- The '''Emeline Street complex''' is a large Santa Cruz County collection of buildings and facilities that is home to various departments and programs, especially365 bytes (52 words) - 17:15, 24 March 2024
- ...ch 2024, the property has been rezoned for residential use, and the church buildings are slated for demolition.548 bytes (79 words) - 17:48, 25 March 2024
